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Jennifer took a trip out to the legendary Newport Folk Festival and brought us back this two-part report. <\/p>\n

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Day 1 <\/p>\n

The first night of the festival, one of the topics of dinner conversation was Why are you here?<\/i> Not in a mean way, but rather: what inspired you to make this journey? The best answer I could come up with was: Well, I got a wild hair . . . <\/i> which was met with bemused humming and ended in a tangent on regional usage of the phrase. It’s essentially true, however: I went to Rhode Island for about 24 hours largely because back in February I squinted at the calendar and decided I could and it was there and why not?, and oh yes, there are some bands playing that I kind of like! And possibly also because the Internet has permanently changed my idea of what qualifies as a “local show.” Rhode Island! I can get there on the train! (And the bus . . . ) That totally qualifies as “nearby”! <\/p>\n

My voyage to the Newport Folk Festival began before dawn on Saturday and included a brief (and accidental) detour to New London, CT. I missed A.A. Bondy’s set at the festival as result, which was distressing, but I consoled myself with a walk around town. There is a surprising amount of street art in New London, and a good deal of it has nautical themes. Here’s one of a whale, which stretches almost the entire length of a block: <\/p>\n

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By WyLAND, 1993<\/center> <\/p>\n

My favorite one, though, is this one <\/a>, because it is so delightfully bizarre. Anyway, after getting back on the train, I carried on to Providence, RI, where they were getting ready to set the canals on fire <\/a> (aka WaterFire <\/a>; I’m tempted to go back in October and see it for myself) and then got down to Newport in time to catch a little bit of Calexico: <\/p>\n

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Calexico<\/center> <\/p>\n

I got there in time to hear them power through a couple of songs, including Guero Canelo<\/i>, which is one of my favorites. Between bands there was peoplewatching, and also punks with horns and drums: <\/p>\n

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What Cheer?<\/center> <\/p>\n

Next up was Andrew Bird: <\/p>\n

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He played some bits and pieces of things that, he said, “might be songs someday” and that was when I wandered off to the beach: <\/p>\n

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I have to say, listening to Scythian Empires<\/i> with my feet in the water and the sun on my face was a highlight of the afternoon. I came back up to the main area for John Prine, who brought the whole thing back around to a more old-fashioned country-folk place: <\/p>\n

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And then later I went for a guided tour of the town: <\/p>\n

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This statue on the main drag CREEPED ME OUT. Apparently they put socks on the feet in the winter. <\/p>\n

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The oldest sailors’ bar on the Newport waterfront and allegedly home of the best chowder in town. I had some, and it was delicious. <\/p>\n

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Buskers by the creepy statue; they were pretty good, so we stayed a few moments to listen to them. <\/p>\n

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Jazz on the way to the Coffee Grinder; there’s a public seating area at the end of the pier where one can sit and enjoy the breeze and watch the boats in the harbor. <\/p>\n

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Bridges and boats by night, from Bowen’s Wharf. <\/center> <\/p>\n

I finished off the day with some delicious ice cream, and then went back to the hostel and crashed. <\/p>\n

–Jennifer<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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